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Alexander, Christine and H. J. Rosengarten. The Brontës. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. IV. (3rd. Edn.) Ed. by Joanne Shattock. CUP. 1999, 1111–1144.
Horwitz, Barbara J. The Brontës. British Women Writers, 1700-1850: An Annotated Bibliography of their Works and Works about them. Lanham, Md. & London: The Scarecrow Press. 1997, 72–89.
Cross, B. Gilbert; Meredith M. Klaus, et. al. A Brontë Reading List. [1969–1988, 1993–1996.]
  BST. 15: 5 (1970), 424–426; 16: 1 (1971), 52–54; 16: 2 (1972), 146–150; 16: 3 (1973), 228–231; 16: 4 (1974), 299–302; 16: 5 (1975), 402–405; 17: 2 (1977), 141–144; 17: 3 (1978), 222–226; 17: 4 (1979), 302–306; 17: 5 (1980), 382–386; 18: 1 (1981), 43–45; 18: 2 (1982), 152–156; 18: 3 (1983), 240–242; 18: 4 (1984), 326–329; 18: 5 (1985), 427–429; 19: 5 (1988), 239–243; 19: 7 (1989), 335–340; 21: 4 (1994), 136; 21: 7 (1996), 376–377.
Ogden, James, Sara L. Pearson and Peter Cook. A Brontë Reading List. 2000–19 2020–22
  Brontë Studies. 32: 2 (Jul. 2007), 157–164; 33: 3 (Nov. 2008), 245–255; 34: 3 (Nov. 2009), 255–262; 36: 4 (Nov. 2011), 374–380; 37: 3 (Sep. 2012), 250–258; 39: 1 (Jan. 2014), 71–80; 41: 3 (Sep. 2016), 261–272; 42: 4 (Nov. 2017), 351–360; 43: 4 (Oct. 2018), 341–355; 44: 3 (Jul. 2019), 306–322; 44: 4 (Oct. 2019), 392–401; 45: 4 (Oct. 2020), 374–391; 47: 1 (Jan. 2022), 61–74, 48: 1–2 (2023), 126–147 and 48: 4 (2023), 369–384; 50: 1–2 (2025), 144–155.
↪ Duckett, Bob. Review: A Brontё Reading List, Parts 1–7 (2007–2016). BS. 42: 2 (Apr. 2017), 163–167.
Yablon, G. Anthony and John R. Turner. A Brontë Bibliography. London: Ian Hodgkins & Co. 1978
Crump, Rebecca W. Charlotte and Emily Brontë: A Reference Guide. 1846–1915. 1916–1954. 1955–1983. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. 1982–1986.
Passel, Anne. Charlotte and Emily Brontë: An Annotated Bibliography. New York & London: Garland Publishing. 1979
Barclay, Janet M. Emily Brontë Criticism 1900-1982: An Annotated Check List. Westport, CT. and London: Meckler Publishing. 1984
Duckett, Bob. New Landmarks in Brontë Bibliography. Library Review. 57: 1 (2008), 67–73.
Wood, Butler. Bibliography of the Works the Brontë Family. BST. 1: 1 (1895), 5–34.
Jack, A. A. and G. A. B. ‘The Brontës. Bibliography’. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Vol. 13. 1917 html
Wise, Thomas James. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of the Members of the Brontë Family. London: Printed for Private Circulation only by Richard Clay & Sons, 1917
Zandvoort, R. W. Recent Literature on the Brontës. English Studies. 25:  (Dec. 1943), 177–192.
Alexander, Christine. A Bibliography of the Manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë. Keighley: The Brontë Society. 1982
Neufeldt, Victor A. A Bibliography of the Manuscripts of Patrick Branwell Brontë. New York & London: Garland Publishing. 1993
Hatfield, C. W. The Early Manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë: A Bibliography. (1922–1924). I II III
 BST.: 6: 32 (1922), 97-111; 6: 33 (1923), 153-165; 6: 34 (1924), 220-235.
Cook, Davidson. Brontë Manuscripts in the Law Collection. The Bookman. 69: 410 (Nov. 1925), 100–104.
Anon. [Brontë family.] The Blavatnik Honresfield Library Printed Books. Sotheby’s. [2021], 9–13.
——. The Blavatnik Honresfield Library Manuscripts. Sotheby’s. [2021], 4–13.
Christian, Mildred G. ‘A Census of Brontë Manuscripts in the United States.’ The Trollopian. 1947–1948.
Marchand, Leslie A. An Addition to the Census of Brontë Manuscripts. NCF. 4: 1 (Jun. 1949), 81–84.
The Brontë Society Collections: Library catalogue and Museum collection
Symington, J. Alex. Catalogue of the Museum & Library. Haworth: The Brontë Society. 1927
Bradford Local Studies Library: Local Studies guides.
Victorian Fiction: An Online Research Guide: Anne Brontë | Charlotte Brontë | Emily Brontë
Poetry Archive [2002]: Anne Brontë | Charlotte Brontë | Emily Brontë
[Brontë MSS], The Library of the Late H. Buxton Forman [Part I]. [Sales Catalogue, 15 March 1920]. New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1920, 22–27.
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816–1855. Juvenilia: Guide. [MS Lowell 1] Houghton Library, Harvard College Library [with facsimiles]
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Letters to William Smith Williams: Guide. [MS Eng 871] Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Demidova, Oʹlga. Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot in Russian: A Bibliography (1849-1989). Oxford Slavonic Papers. N. S. 29 (1996), 44–60.
Reynolds, Matthew, et. al. List of Translations. Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Lan­guages. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. 2023, 799–857.

E-texts of Adaptations and Literary Responses to the Brontës’ Works and Lives

Brougham, John. Jane Eyre. A Drama. In Five Acts. New York, ¹1849 [archive.org | html]
[Forgues, Paul Émile Daurand]. Jane Eyre ou Mémoires d’une gouvernante, de Currer-Bell, imités par Old-Nick . Paris: Hachette et Cie., 1855 [adaptation, first published in the Revue de Paris, April–June 1849]
Nack, James. ‘Jane Eyre’, The Immortal: A Dramatic Romance; and Other Poems. New York, 1850, 161.
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte. Die Waise aus Lowood. Schauspiel in zwei Abteilungen und vier Akten. Mit freier Benutzung des Romans von Currer Bell. Berlin, 1853.
A[rnold, Matthew]. ‘Haworth Churchyard, April 1855’, Fraser’s Magazine. 51 (May 1855), 527–530.
Bölte, Amely. Das Forsthaus. Prag: K. Herzabek und Leipzig: Heinrich Hübner. 1855
Dickinson, Emily. ‘All overgrown by cunning moss’ (written c. 1859)
Jenkin, Henrietta Camilla. Cousin Stella; or Conflict. [I, II, III]. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1859
Stoddard, Elizabeth. The Morgesons. New York: Carleton. 1862
Worboise, Emma Jane. Thornycroft Hall. London: Jackson & W., 1864
Harte, Bret. ‘Miss Mix’, in Condensed Novels. 1867
Horn, Henry J. ‘Agnes Reef: A Tale’, Strange Visitors: A Series of Original Papers, Embracing Philosophy, Science, Government, Religion, Poetry, Art, Fiction, Satire, Humor, Narrative, and Prophecy. By the Spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Bronte, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and Others Now Dwelling in the Spirit World. Dictated through A Clairvoyant, while in an Abnormal or Trance State. New York: Carleton, 1869, 65–131.
M., D. F. [Morera y Valls, Francisco] Juana Eyre: Drama en cuatro actos y un prólogo. Barcelona: Manero, 1869
Bölte, Amely. Elisabeth oder Eine deutsche Jane Eyre . [I, II] Wien, Pest, Leipzig: A. Hartleben. 1873
Michély, R. L’orfanella di Lowood. Dramma in due parti, diviso in un prologo e tre atti. Ridotto dal tedesco. Napoli, 1874 [Rappresentato la prima volta in Napoli, 1871.]
Marlitt, E[ugenie]. Die zweite Frau. Leipzig, 1874 [The Second Wife. Transl. by Annis Lee Wister. Philadelphia, 1888 (¹1874)]
Craven, Carey Williams. ‘The Brontës’ [poem], The Poets of Keighley, Bingley, Haworth, and District, 1893, 79.
[Gilman], Charlotte Perkins Stetson. ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’, The New England Magazine, XI: 5 (January 1892), 647–657.
James, Henry. ‘The Turn of the Screw’, Collier’s Weekly, 20: 17–21: 2 (27 Jan.–16 April 1898) [repr. in The Two Magics. London: Heinemann, 1898, 3–169.] [html]
De la Mare, Walter. ‘Chapter III—Jane Eyre.’ Henry Brocken. His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance. London: John Murray. 1904, 13–29.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden [serialized in The American Magazine, 71–72 (Nov. 1910–Aug. 1911)] New York: Frederick A. Stokes and Co., 1911
Sinclair, May. The Three Sisters. ¹London: Hutchinson, 1914
Courths-Mahler, Hedwig. Griseldis. 1917 [German TV adaptation (1974) by Peter Beauvais starring Sabine Sinjen, Klaus Barner and Tatjana Iwanow]
Von Arnim, Elizabeth. Vera. London: Macmillan. 1921 html
Ferguson, Rachel. The Brontës Went to Woolworths. 1931
Frank, Maude Morrison. At the Misses Brontë’s Establishment: An Excursion into the Might-Have-Been. Cornhill Magazine. 70: 416 (Feb. 1931), 151–168.
Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1932
Cook, E. Thornton. They Lived: A Brontë Novel. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1935.
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca. London: Gollancz. 1938
Cornish, Dorothy Helen. These were the Brontës. New York: Macmillan. 1940
Plath, Sylvia. ‘Two Views of Withens’, 1957
——. ‘Wuthering Heights’, 1961
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. ¹London: André Deutsch. 1966. [pdf]
Bush, Kate. ‘Wuthering Heights’, The Kick Inside. 1978 [video]
Hughes, Ted. ‘Emily Brontë’, Remains of Elmet, London, 1979
——. ‘Wuthering Heights’. Birthday Letters. 1998
Carson, Anne. ‘The Glass Essay.’ Glass, Irony, and God. 1994.
Cicchini, Emily Ball. Becoming Brontë [excerpt] 1994/2004
Adams, Judith. Villette. 1997 [extract]
O’Keefe, John. The Brontë Cycle. 1997 [doc]
——. Brontë. 2000 [doc]
Thorne, Tim. ‘Bronte Country’, Famous Reporter, 21 (June 2000)
Heslewood, Juliet. Mr. Nicholls: A Brontë Story. Scratching Shed Publishing. 2017

Film-, TV-, and Audio-Adaptations:

Fiction:


The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (GB, 1996) Dir.: Mike Barker. Cast: Tara Fitzgerald, Toby Stevens, Rupert Graves. (161 min.) [VHS] [2 — English subtitles]

Jane Eyre. (USA, 1934) Dir.: Christy Cabanne. Cast: Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive. (64 min.) – English Subtitles
Jane Eyre. (USA, 1943) Dir.: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor. (96 min.)
I walked with a Zombie. (USA, 1943) Dir. Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Frances Dee, Tom Conway. (68 min.) [Loosely based on Jane Eyre.] Portuguese subtitles | German version.
Jane Eyre. (USA, 1949). Dir.: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Mary Sinclair, Charlton Heston, Viola Roache, Ethel Remey, Joan Wetmore. (60 min.)
Jane Eyre. (USA, 1952). Dir.: Jack Gage. Cast: Katharine Bard, Kevin McCarthy, Frances Starr. (55 min.)
Jane Eyre. (USA, 1957). Dir.: Lamont Johnson. Cast: Joan Elan, Patrick Macnee, Isobel Elsom. (51 min.)
Jane Eyre. (I, 1957). Dir.: Anton Giulio Majano. Cast: Ilaria Occhini, Raf Vallone. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 (c. 300 min.) (Italian)
Jane Eyre. (USA, 1961). Dir.: Marc Daniels. Cast: Sally Ann Howes, Fritz Weaver. (58 min.)
Jane Eyre. (GB, 1963). Dir.: Rex Tucker. Cast: Ann Bell, Richard Leech, Stephanie Bidmead, Elsie Arnold, Hira Talfrey. Part 1, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 (150 min.)
Jane Eyre. [2] (GB, 1970). Dir.: Delbert Mann. Cast: Susannah York, George C. Scott, Ian Bannen. (98 min.)
Jane Eyre. (GB, 1973). Dir.: Joan Craft. Cast: Sorcha Cusack, Michael Jayston. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 (275 min.) — Behind the Scenes.
Jane Eyre. (GB, 1983). [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] Dir.: Julian Amyes. Cast: Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton. (c. 300 min.)
Jane Eyre. (GB/I/F, 1996). Dir.: Franco Zeffirelli. Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, William Hurt, Anna Paquin, Joan Plowright, Elle MacPherson, Leanne Rowe (116 min.)
Jane Eyre. (GB, 1997). Dir.: Robert Young, Cast: Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds, Gemma Jones, Rupert Penry-Jones. (107 min.) – Optional Spanish Subtitles [Japanese]


Wuthering Heights. [2, 3] (USA, 1939). Dir.: William Wyler. Cast: Lawrence Olivier, Merle Oberon; David Niven. (104 min.)
Wuthering Heights. (USA, 1950). Dir.: Paul Nickell. Cast: Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair, Richard Waring, June Dayton, Lloyd Bochner. (59 min.)
Wuthering Heights. (USA, 1958). Dir.: Daniel Petrie. Cast: Richard Burton, Rosemary Harris, Denholm Elliott, Cathleen Nesbitt, Barry Jones. (76 min.)
Wuthering Heights. [2] (GB, 1967). Dir.: Peter Sasdy. Cast: Ian McShane, Angela Scoular, John Garrie, Anne Stallybrass, William Marlowe, Angela Douglas, Drewe Henley, Keith Buckley. (180 min.)
Wuthering Heights. (USA, 1970). Dir.: Robert Fuest. Cast: Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Harry Andrews, Pamela Brown, Julian Glover, Hugh Griffith, Ian Ogilvy. (104 min.) 2 [French]
Wuthering Heights. (GB, 1978). Dir.: Peter Hammond. Cast: Ken Hutchison, Kay Adshead, Pat Heywood. Part 1 Part 2 (256 min.)
Wuthering Heights. (嵐が丘, Arashi ga oka) (JA, 1988). Dir.: Yoshishige Yoshida. Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda, Yūko Tanaka, Rentarō Mikuni. (131 min.)
Wuthering Heights. (USA, 1992). Dir.: Peter Kosminsky. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer. (105 min.)
     Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13
Wuthering Heights. (GB, 1998). Dir.: David Skynner. Cast: Robert Cavanah, Orla Brady, Sarah Smart, Matthew Macfadyen, Peter Davison. (112 min.) – Subtitles in Portuguese
Wuthering Heights. (GB, 2009). Dir.: Coky Giedroyc. Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Lancashire, Rebecca Night. (136 min.)
Wuthering Heights. (GB, 2011). Dir.: Andrea Arnold. Cast: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Soloman Glave, Shannon Beer, Steve Evets, Oliver Milburn, Paul Hilton, Lee Shaw, James Northcote, Amy Wren, Nichola Burley. (128 min.)
Wuthering Heights. (USA, 2022) Dir: Bryan Ferriter. Cast: Bryan Ferriter, Mary Riitano, Ryan Pfeiffer, Jet Jandreau, Nathan Mills (153 min.)

Audio:

The Brontë BBC Radio Drama Collection. Seven full-cast dramatisations adapted by Rachel Joyce. (Oct. 2018)
Brontë, Emily. De Woeste Hoogte. Vertaling: Josephine Soer; Regisseur: Bert Dijkstra; Omroep: TROS; Uitzending: Deel 1 op 5 juli 1983; Speelduur: 2 uur en 45 minuten, 9 delen.

Biopics:

Devotion. (USA, 1946). Dir.: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Nancy Coleman, Paul Henried, Arthur Kennedy, May Witty. (107 min.)
The Brontës of Haworth. (GB, 1973). Dir.: Marc Miller. Script: Christopher Fry. Cast: Michael Kitchen, Alfred Burke, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Vickery Turner, Benjamin Whitrow. (c. 300 min.)
Les Sœurs Brontë. (FR, 1979). Dir.: André Téchiné. Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee. (115 min.)

Docudrama:

In Search of the Brontës. (GB, 2003). Dir. Samira Osman. Script: Juliet Barker. Cast: Patrick Malahide, Alexandra Milman, Victoria Hamilton, Elizabeth Hurran, Jonathan McGuinness. Narrator: Patricia Routledge. (120 min.) – Greek Subtitles

Documentaries:

The Brilliant Brontë Sisters. (GB, 2013). Presented by Sheila Hancock (47 min.)
Walking through History: Brontë Country. (GB, 2014). With Tony Robinson. (47 min.)
Finding Gondal: The Story of the Brontë Family. (2015) Dir. Morgan Rauscent (53 min.) – French Subtitles.
In Search of Emily Brontë. (GB, 2003). Dir.: Tim Brearley. (24 min.)
Anne Brontë: The Final Journey. (GB, 2015). Written and Presented by Ann Dinsdale. (37 min.)
Give Me Liberty – The Poetry of Emily Brontë. A free Tuesday talk, researched and delivered in March 2018 by one of our volunteer team. Brontë Parsonage Museum. (41 min.)
Jamie Cullum plays the Brontë family’s piano. Piano Pilgrimage. BBC Radio 4. (11 Feb. 2014) (2 min.)

Podcasts/Lectures:

MacEwan, Helen. Webinar: The Brontës in Brussels. Brussels City Museum. 2024. (86 min.)
McManus, Alison. Jane Eyre and Masculinity. Late Summer Lectures: Public Lectures on English Literature at Durham University. 2013. (18 min.)
Quinnell, James. Ghosting, Place, and Wuthering Heights. Late Summer Lectures: Public Lectures on English Literature at Durham University. 2013. (29 min.)
Von Schönfeld, Antonie. Musikstunde: Charlotte, Emily und Anne – Die Brontë Schwestern (1–5). SWR 2. (12–16 Oct. 2020). (330 min.)
     Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5   Transcript
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